If you have not already heard, Shavlik has released a new version of IT.Shavlik that includes our latest engine
enhancements. (For all you NetChk Protect users you are getting the new engine in NetChk Protect 7.8.)
This includes archive file support. Along with support for more products we are finally going to wave
goodbye to painful support issues introduced by Apple installers back in Apple iTunes 9 and Apple QuickTime
7.6.4. For more details on the issue you can read up on a previous post regarding the changes Apple made to
their installers. I am going to walk you …
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Every few weeks, we get an email from a small business or home user with a small slug of machines they want to make sure are patched. It awesome to see everyone care about patching, but implementing a routine patching plan is sometimes a tough thing to do. All of the emails we see always say something to the effect of:
Patching isn’t fun, but I know it needs to get done.
How do I do it in a non-intrusive way?
After thinking about this issue for quite some time, we now have a great answer. On Tuesday this week, …
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If you talk with many small to medium sized businesses (SMB) about virtualization, unless they are a high-tech company many of them will tilt their heads sideways and deal you a “huh?” response. The technology, although now mainstream at high-tech companies and enterprises is still facing an adoption curve as it moves down into SMB. Not surprisingly, the “cloud” debate seems to be taking a path of a different sort. – Starting with those SMB’s who are choosing to skip virtualization although and head straight for the cloud.
I was reading some articles recently, and came across an article on Redmondmag.com …
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